Having been conjured up on the banks of the Thames, Shakespeare's spirit is forced to rethink the way he has portrayed female characters in his plays. The five protagonists address him directly, whilst questioning his motives and the reasoning behind the situations he has placed them in.
We are taken on a difficult yet enlightening journey: the stories of these incisive women are still so relevant to the women of today.
Joan of Arc
Ophelia
Lady Macbeth
Catherine of Aragon
Titania
William Shakespeare
Monia Giovannangeli
(after the works of William Shakespeare)
Joan of Arc - Deborah Eckman
Ophelia - Monia Giovannangeli
Lady Macbeth - Alexandra Maitland Hume
Catherine of Aragon - Nicolette van 't Hek
Titania - Adda van Zanden
William Shakespeare - Victor Vertunni
Alessandro Martin - guitar
Chiara Di Benedetto - cello
Emma Turley - cello
Caterina Monaco
Ornella Bollani
These “daughters of Shakespeare” are convincing figures whose lives are interwoven and whose personal stories blend together like a concept album… Together, they embody the universal feminine spirit, and in the final scenes, seem to merge into a unanimous chorus…
Shakespeare’s poetry woven into the threads of complex feminine logic. A journey of rediscovery of the women who gave such importance to Shakespeare's work - Joan of Arc, Catherine of Aragon, Ophelia, Lady Macbeth and Titania – who bring their personal dramas to the fore… Moving and enthralling.
Using a richly varied language that mixes Shakespearian verse with everyday dialogue, these heroines shed their dusty characters to put on the clothing of the woman in the street… And to rewrite, if not the past, then at least the future of a society that is obliged to recognise the central role that women play in life as in art.
The Theatre of Eternal Values theatre company puts Shakespeare’s heroines on the stage, mixing classic verse with modern-day language to rewrite the fatal destiny to which women of every era are condemned. The distinctive feature of this play… is the intermittent insertion of comments into the author’s dramaturgy. Ironic, reflective and insistent, they call attention to the motives that drove him to paint such weak, lonely, mad, cruel and easily subjugated women… In the process, the individuality of each Shakespearian character achieves a homogeneous harmony, the voice of the female gender across every age and space.